Job 4:20

Between morning and evening they are destroyed; 1 they perish forever without anyone noticing them. 1

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In The King James Version

They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.

In Context

19how much more is this true of those who live in houses of clay, 1 whose foundation is in the dust, 1 who are crushed sooner than a moth? 1

21Are not their tent cords plucked up among them? 1 They die; they die without wisdom.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 21:20He had begun to reign when he was thirty-two years old; he reigned in Jerusalem for eight years, and when he departed no one mourned him. They buried him in the city of David, but not in the royal tombs.

Job 14:14If a man dies, will he live again? 1 If so, I would wish to wait all my weary time there 1 until my release should come. 1

Job 16:22For when a few years have passed, 1 I will go to a place from where I will not return.

Job 20:7yet such a person will perish permanently like his own feces; 1 those who have seen him will say, 'Where is he?' 1

Psalms 39:13Turn your gaze from me so that I may smile again 1 before I die.”

Psalms 92:7When the wicked sprout like the grass, 1 and even when all the evildoers thrive, 1 still they are doomed to eternal destruction. 1

Matthew Henry on Job 4:13-21

12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. 13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, 14 Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. 15 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: 16 It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, 17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his… Read the whole commentary →

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